Latest News. Ardale launches chain of plant and tool hire centres Cop Ryan confident summit will end with agreement Miriam Lord: Wee Anne from Galway has no good news to deliver Negotiators at Cop26 close in on agreement in face of criticism Not registered? Register here. The year-old began his career in the public eye in , and worked to become a Cabinet Minister. However, after his retirement from politics in the early Noughties he chose instead to focus on TV roles.
Following the Tory victory of the same year, Portillo became a government advisor to David Howell at the Department for Energy. He made his return to politics and ran in local elections, however he lost the seat of Birmingham Perry Barr to Labour politician Jeff Rooker. A year later, he was promoted to Minister of State for Transport. It is not intended to provide medical or other professional advice. Moreover, the views expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of Inquiries Journal or Student Pulse, its owners, staff, contributors, or affiliates.
Forgot password? Reset your password ». Cite References Print. It was at the interview stage that Phillip Oppenheim, former MP for Amber Valley, and government minister, was dropped from the list. An Analysis of China's Role in the 21st Century. Essential Modernisation or Excessive Meddling?
Labour, Wakeham and the Lords Reforms. Monster Raving Mad! Rugby: Who's Game is it Anyway? From the Inquiries Journal Blog. Related Reading British Politics. Change Within the Conservative and Labour Parties.
Political Science » United Kingdom. Political Science » British Politics. Monthly Newsletter Signup The newsletter highlights recent selections from the journal and useful tips from our blog.
Follow us to get updates from Inquiries Journal in your daily feed. One Nation or Traditional conservatism pre-Thatcherite after the war could attach its self to the post war consensus of a Keynesian Social Democracy we must be very careful with the term PWC as it is highly debated as to whether it actually existed, however, few would neglect a commitment to KSD and for those reasons I use that term. We can break the KSD into three main features which had the most political bearing.
Firstly the commitment MORE ». Tony Blair has long been committed to the abolition of hereditary peers; the Labour Party Manifesto promised that this would happen.
Labour knew that reform would be difficult and would upset many people of influence, so they took their time and waited for the right moment.
The politician has been developing these ideas ever since - arguably, his supporters say, he could explore them better outside Westminster than within the constraints of party loyalty. Friends claim Portillo was painted unfairly into a corner as an extreme right-winger - although it was an image he deliberately stoked because he thought that was what the party wanted in a leader.
Since his election downfall he has emphasised his caring side, replacing military briefing papers with Alain de Botton's novels about love, and travelling on the number 73 bus rather than by ministerial car.
He has also begun sending out different political signals. At the Tory conference he "came out" as a "compassionate Conservative" who urged the party to tolerate lone parents and gays. Since then, he has called for increased investment in hospitals and for better treatment of doctors. At this year's conference he will promote the cause of teachers with a high-profile speech on education.
This shift is making Portillo some unlikely friends - he got on so well with Peter Mandelson when he interviewed him for television that he invited him for dinner at his Pimlico home.
More importantly for his political career, he has managed to persuade those on the left of the Tory party that he is not extreme. Shaun Woodward MP, who supported Kenneth Clarke for the leadership, describes Portillo as "mainstream, a centre-right Conservative rather than a right-wing Conservative".
Some of those MPs who would have crossed the committee corridor to avoid the former minister in the last Parliament are now privately discussing lending him their support in a future leadership contest. Portillo privately goes further than the Hague line and argues that the single currency should be ruled out on principle; some friends say he even buys the Thatcher argument that Britain should renegotiate its relationship with Brussels or pull out.
The Tory left would never accept such a position. But it seems likely that softening his attitude to "rotten" Brussels would be a softening too far. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies.
0コメント